Test 3 · Trains and the Underground

What would happen if a train driver fainted at the controls?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: train driver · What happens: happen, faint

This is test 3 of lesson 21 «Trains and the Underground» of the technology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 fainted	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 driver	det
6	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 driver	compound
7	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fainted	nsubj
8	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 controls	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 controls	det
11	controls	control	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fainted	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	faint a condition, not said to happen	past	a train driver					at the controls	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at control=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

The train would keep going until it ran out of track

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 train	det
2	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 ran	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ran	nsubj
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	advcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	11 track	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 track	case
11	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	keep	would	the train		tree rules
2	go	gerund	the train not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run	past	train	track	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out track=Trajectory

Option 2

Passengers would have to take turns steering it to the next station

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Passengers	passenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 take	mark
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	obj
7	steering	steer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 take	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 steering	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 station	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 station	det
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 station	amod
12	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 steering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	would	Passengers			tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive	Passengers not said here	turns		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme
3	steer	gerund	Passengers not said here	it	the next station	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to station=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He would stop pressing the safety pedal, so the train would brake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	pressing	press	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pedal	det
6	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pedal	compound
7	pedal	pedal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pressing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 brake	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 brake	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 train	det
11	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brake	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 brake	aux
13	brake	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stop	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stop	would	He		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	press	gerund	He not said here	the safety pedal	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pedal=Theme
3	break	would	the train		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

The signals would keep turning green to help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 signals	det
2	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keep	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 help	mark
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 green	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	would	the signals	green property	tree rules
2	turn	gerund	the signals not said here		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	help	to-infinitive	the signals not said here		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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